- From: Janet Daly <janet@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:39:37 -0700
- To: w3c-news@w3.org
Today, W3C reached an important milestone toward its mission of
making it as easy to use the Web on a mobile device as on a desktop
computer. Mobile Web Best Practices are now in Candidate
Recommendation, and W3C is inviting developers to give them a test-run.
"There are many devices, but one Web," said Daniel Appelquist, chair
of the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. "Practical guidelines
on how to create content once that can be delivered to the plethora
of devices saves developers and organizations time and money, and has
the added benefit of not breaking the Web. "
For more information, or to reach companies and organizations which
have provided testimonials supporting Mobile Web Best Practices,
please contact Janet Daly, +1 617 253 5884, <janet@w3.org> or the W3C
Communications Team representative in your region.
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W3C Issues Mobile Web Best Practices as Candidate Recommendation
Industry Leaders Encourage Developers to test Guidelines for "One
Web" of Content
Web Resources
This press release
In English: http://www.w3.org/2006/06/mwbp-pressrelease.html.en
In French: http://www.w3.org/2006/06/mwbp-pressrelease.html.fr
In Japanese: http://www.w3.org/2006/06/mwbp-pressrelease.html.ja
Testimonials from AOL, dotMobi, France Telecom, ICRA, Microsoft
Corporation, Nokia Corporation, Opera Software, T-Online, Vodafone
and Volantis
http://www.w3.org/2006/06/mwbp-testimonial
W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-mobile-bp-20060627/
http://www.w3.org/ -- 27 June 2006 -- Today, W3C reached an important
milestone toward its mission of making it as easy to use the Web on a
mobile device as on a desktop computer. W3C has published Mobile Web
Best Practices a Candidate Recommendation, an indication of broad
consensus on the technical content of the document.
W3C now invites implementation experience from the community.
Industry leaders are declaring their support for the guidelines,
which explain how to develop Web sites that work on mobile devices.
"There are many devices, but one Web," said Daniel Appelquist, chair
of the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. "Practical guidelines
on how to create content once that can be delivered to the plethora
of devices saves developers and organizations time and money, and has
the added benefit of not breaking the Web. "
W3C Distills Principles and Techniques for Efficient Delivery of Web
Content
"Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0" condenses the experience of many
mobile Web stakeholders into practical advice on creating content
that will work well on mobile devices. Authors and other content
producers can find instructions on how to create content that makes
browsing convenient on mobile devices and avoids known pitfalls, such
as pop-ups and page-scrolling.
Guidelines Checker and Techniques Wiki Available to Mobile Web
Developers
W3C invites the designers of Web sites and content management systems
to read the guidelines, make implementations, and test their results
with the alpha version of a guidelines checker
In order to build a strong community of mobile Web developers, W3C
has also launched a wiki to collect observations and suggestions on
techniques and implementation experience of Mobile Web Best Practices
1.0.
Mobile Web Best Practices Enjoys Broad Industry and Consumer Support
"Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0" was developed by a Working Group that
included representatives from 30 organizations: Afilias Limited,
America Online, Inc. (AOL), ANEC European Association for the Co-
ordination of Consumer Representation in Standardisation, Argo
Interactive Ltd, AT&T, Electronics and Telecommunications Research
Institute (ETRI), elmundo.es, Ericsson, France Telecom, Fundación
CTIC (Centro Tecnológico para el Desarrollo en Asturias de las
Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación), Fundación ONCE, Go
Daddy.com, Google, Inc., Indus Net Technologies, International
Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG), Internet
Content Rating Association, Microsoft Corporation, dotMobi (mTLD Top
Level Domain, Ltd.), Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Openwave Systems Inc., Opera
Software, Segala, Sevenval AG, T-Online International AG, The Boeing
Company, TIM Italia SpA, University of Helsinki, Vodafone and
Volantis Systems Ltd.
This work is part of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, which is
supported by nineteen MWI Sponsors, including key players in the
mobile production chain: Afilias, Argogroup, Bango.net, dotMobi,
Drutt Corporation, Ericsson, France Telecom, HP, Jataayu Software,
MobileAware, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Opera Software, TIM Italia,
RuleSpace, Segala, Sevenval, Vodafone, and Volantis.
Testimonials
AOL | dotMobi | France Telecom | ICRA | Microsoft Corporation | Nokia
Corporation | Opera Software | T-Online | Vodafone | Volantis
AOL is very pleased that the W3C has released these Mobile Web
Best Practices Guidelines as a Candidate Recommendation. These
guidelines are an important first step in improving the user
experience of the Web from mobile devices. As a major provider of
content and services on the Web, AOL intends to use these guidelines
in our diverse portfolio of Web properties and services. We are
looking forward to extending more of our Web content to mobile
devices, and welcome W3C's timely initiatives in the mobile arena.
-- Barry Appelman Senior Vice-President and Chief Mobile and Web
Strategist, AOL
dotMobi is proud to support the W3C. We have been a long-
standing supporter and contributor to W3C's Mobile Web initiative,
and have even formalized this open and standards-based approach into
our developer guides. We are thrilled to see that these guidelines
are available to all developers and content providers. We believe W3C
and their efforts bring closer a future where everyone can easily
access and use the internet with only a mobile phone.
-- Neil Edwards, CEO, dotMobi, (mTLD, Top Level Domain, Ltd.) -
the ICANN-appointed registry for the .mobi domain
As an Integrated Operator that aims to provide consistent user
experience across multiple networks and terminal devices, the France
Telecom Group welcomes the release of the W3C Candidate
Recommendation for Mobile Web Best Practices. As these guidelines
facilitate the process of developing and delivering content that
would be more accessible from mobile and other portable devices, they
represent an important step towards creating new service
opportunities and enabling more users to take advantage of the Web.
-- Christian Jacquenet, Director of Standardization – France
Telecom
ICRA has always been a champion of Best Practice on the
Web,particularly with respect to the protection of minors. The
developmentof the these Best Practices is clearly a step forward on
what, forchildren, is the most essential gadget in the world – their
mobilephone. ICRA is proud to have contributed to this effort
andcongratulates W3C on today’s publication. It will prove highly
useful aswe continue to develop our work for mobile.
-- Phil Archer, CTO, ICRA
Microsoft Corp. is pleased to see the Mobile Web Best Practices
become a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Committed to working with the
industry to ensure the highest standards of mobile web software and
services, Microsoft will continue its support of Mobile Web Best
Practices by implementing the W3C Recommendation within its mobile
services, and through joint ventures such as the Mobile Top Level
Domain (".mobi").
-- Aron Holzman, Program Manager, Microsoft Corp.
Nokia believes the use of the Web via mobile browsers will be
the next big step towards making information and content available
globally to everybody, including billions of people for whom their
mobile phone will be their first and only means of Internet access.
To achieve this it is important to provide the Web community with the
right set of tools to make it easier to deliver information and
content in mobile-friendly way. Mobile Web Best Practices Candidate
Recommendation is an important step towards this goal. Nokia
congratulates W3C for this achievement.
-- Timo Ali-Vehmas, Vice President, Standardization and Industry
Relations, Nokia Corporation
Opera Software welcomes the publication of Best Practices for
the Mobile Web as a Candidate Recommendation. The guidance it
provides to authors will nicely complement the work of browser makers
like Opera in bringing the full Web to anyone anywhere on any device.
With the development of browsers like Opera mini making the mobile
Web more accessible to more people than ever before, this publication
is indeed timely.While the best mobile browsers can provide a great
internet experience for any content, it is more efficient and more
effective when content has been designed to take account of basic
design requirements, and these guidelines will help authors to ensure
that their content works as well as possible on the entire internet.
We look forward both to our own work implementing the Best Practices
in our Web content, and to a large range of authors using them to
improve the entire Web.
-- Charles McCathieNevile, Chief Standards Officer, Opera
Software ASA.
T-Online, the ISP of Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Com, is pleased to
be part of the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and the Mobile
Web Initiative.As one of the leading Internet Service Providers on
the European Internet market, T-Online sees a growing need to harness
the web's full potential by making it truly mobile. The Mobile Web
Best Practices make it easier to answer our customers demand for a
greater ability to access the same information both from desktop
computers and web capable mobile devices with equal comfort. The
Mobile Web Best Practices represent a major step forward in the
continuing development of the World Wide Web.
-- Bernd Beimdick, AC Representative, Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Com
Vodafone is pleased to have participated in the development of
the Mobile Web Best Practices. We have seen this development through
to Candidate Recommendation stage with our chairmanship of the Mobile
Web Best Practices working group and our sponsorship of the W3C
Mobile Web Initiative. Vodafone believes these best practices will
play an important role in the growth of the Mobile Web in concert
with other standards and industry activity, such as the Mobile Top
Level Domain.
-- Daniel Appelquist, Senior Technology Strategist, Vodafone Group
Volantis applauds the initiatives by the W3C to document and
standardise best practices in content mobilisation. Volantis is a
leading advocate driving the industry to reduce the complexities for
integrating the Internet & mobile communications in order to maximise
the content quality experience for any device.
-- Rhys Lewis, Chief Scientist at Volantis and Chair of the W3C
Device Independence Working Group
Contact Americas, Australia --
Janet Daly, <janet@w3.org>, +1.617.253.5884 or +1.617.253.2613
Contact Europe, Africa and the Middle East --
Marie-Claire Forgue, <mcf@w3.org>, +33.492.38.75.94
Contact Asia --
Yasuyuki Hirakawa <chibao@w3.org>, +81.466.49.1170
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